Year: 2005

teh Havoc modded a Halo 2 LED flashlight (no longer available, sadly, at the Bungie Store) to end up with a Halo 2 USB flash drive. Nice work!

As I sit here surrounded by 18 inches of snow (with more on the way), and some pretty heavy winds, I notice there are 17 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section. Nothing better on a cold, blustery day than reading by the fire!

Another Friday bit, almost overlooked. This one is only useful to Firefox users on WinXP… but it’s pretty cool. Go visit the MLG forums and grab a pair of search plugins (and their corresponding images), and drop ’em in your searchplugin folder (directions are in the post). Now you’ll be able to search for gamertags…

Oops – this came out Friday, but I forgot to post it. The 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards nominations (awards come from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences – Halo took home Game of the Year in the 2002 ceremony) were posted on Friday (thanks, CJAD 800). Halo 2 is up for six awards:…

Wow. If you want to get all the high-res Halo 2 cutscenes at once, without having to download them one at a time… HALOChat has made them available in a single 478 mb bundle via BitTorrent. Link can be found in this forum post. (I’m not sure how much demand there is for this… but…

Dennis Powers writes to point out a new machinima series he’s begun – it’s called ‘The Halo CE Chronicles’, and follows a “hapless Spartan stationed to a distant Outpost Station and his relationship with the station’s AI.” Currently, there are two movies to see – a short trailer, and a 3:49 Episiode 1. The movies…

The Halouvre has updated its site with two new images, in multiple form factors. Gorgeous HUDless shots of Delta Halo and Metropolis, both in regular screen ratios and as extra-wide panoramas. Check ’em out! Thanks to prometheus for the heads-up.

A couple of new Flash items popped up on Newgrounds recently, both done by ABob…. Halo 2: The Covenant , and Halo 2: Spartan 117. Pretty hard to hear… minimal plots. Thanks, Micro M and argent.

Back from errands, time to get a little Halo-related news posted. Last night, I saw a tidbit on the KOMO 1000 news page (thanks, Google) about a charity tournament set up by some students at Rogers High School in Puyallup (near Seattle)… that got cancelled by the school district. Two RHS seniors had organized a…

Red vs Blue episode 48 has been released for Sponsors – ‘Heavy Metal’ has the remainder of the Red and Blue teams attempting to assault the Zanzibar base… with hilarious consequences. I love Caboose again. This puppy’s 6 and a half minutes long – 30 megs for small versions, 60 for large. (It’ll be up…

Hehe – there’s no Weekly What’s Update yet (looks like that’s coming Sunday)… but you can see the Anime Mister Chief that’s gonna go with it. Thanks, Frankie!

Looks like Bungie is still smarting from the whupping they took from EGM during the Halo Humpday Challenge this week; there’s a rematch (2v2, Shishka and Frankie vs Mark and Shoe from EGM), coming up as soon as it can get scheduled. (There’s some trash-talk about it in this thread on the Bungie.net forum.) We’ll…

The online XBC-based neXtournaments we mentioned a couple of days ago are getting underway in two days – the first tourney is Sunday evening at 7 pm Eastern, sponsored by Corsair, and has a pair of 1GB memory modules (and an XBC Pro serial number) for the winner. There will also be hats and miscellaneous…

Fire Team Charlie has released FTC 17, in hi-res AVI format, for members; it will be up in lower-res format for the masses by tomorrow night. (A hi-res QuickTime should be available later today or tomorrow morning for members.) It weighs in at a bit over 12 minutes, and is something of a departure from…

Hey! It’s a comic morning. One One Se7en returns to the Covenant alphabet developed for the Halo2.com website… and runs into a problem we’ve probably ALL had at one time or another.

New strip over at Halo Babies – takes a practical look at a gameplay question, and comes up with the right answer. Nice artwork!

The Bungie version of the Halo Humpday Challenge between Bungie and EGM was posted yesterday evening – Frankie writes like a broken man. It’s almost sad to see…

GIjoe2 points out his new vid Special Fred, a tribute to grenades and fusion cores, set to Stephen Lynch’s eponymic song. WMP9 format, a bit under 5 megs. Funny stuff!

It’s not up at Bungie.net yet… but it looks like Bungie took another lickin’ in this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge from the guys at Electronic Gaming Monthly. Dan Hsu, known as Shoe in Clan EGM, and a participant in last night’s game, wrote up a short post on the activities. This one wasn’t even close.…

Wow. There’ve been articles out there before about how wives and girlfriends are ‘widowed’ by Halo… but I’ve never seen one like this. Well-written… but FULL of stereotypes. Originally in the New York Observer, now a cover story for the Charlotte Creative Loafing. It’ll either amuse you, or anger you… but it’s a fun read.…